Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.

We all must try to be good.

A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.

I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension